India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is launching a national programme that will use digital tools and connect various government digital platforms to monitor newborn and early childhood health.
The Comprehensive Child Health Programme will provide home- and community-based care from birth to 36 months of age, combining the existing Home-Based Newborn Care and Home-Based Young Child Care programmes into a single framework.
The combined programme will use digital technologies, such as decision support systems, child tracking applications, referral loops, and alert mechanisms, to strengthen monitoring and continuity of care, the ministry said.
These digital tools will be integrated with existing government systems, including the maternal and child care platform Janani portal, the centralised digital vaccination registry U-WIN, the Maternal, Perinatal, and Child Death Surveillance and Review (MPCDSR) portal, the digital children and youth health screening platform RBSK 2.0 portal, and the nutrition tracker Poshan.
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